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HIDEOUSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dreadful ugliness; horrible repulsiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("hideousness" is a kind of...):
ugliness (qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses)
Derivation:
hideous (so extremely ugly as to be terrifying)